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    Loyd Polyominoes: Exchange Puzzle - G4G13, Atlanta 2018 Donald Bell - All The Polyomino Shapes

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    This document describes a puzzle involving polyomino shapes consisting of squares. There are twelve pentominoes made of 5 squares each and five tetrominoes made of 4 squares each, for a total of seventeen shapes. The puzzle challenges the reader to use a set of eight puzzle pieces to form all seventeen shapes, as well as other non-rectangular shapes, as a tribute to a puzzle from 100 years ago that dissected a Greek cross shape into a square. Solutions to making all the shapes are provided inside the document.

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    This document describes a puzzle involving polyomino shapes consisting of squares. There are twelve pentominoes made of 5 squares each and five tetrominoes made of 4 squares each, for a total of seventeen shapes. The puzzle challenges the reader to use a set of eight puzzle pieces to form all seventeen shapes, as well as other non-rectangular shapes, as a tribute to a puzzle from 100 years ago that dissected a Greek cross shape into a square. Solutions to making all the shapes are provided inside the document.

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    This document describes a puzzle involving polyomino shapes consisting of squares. There are twelve pentominoes made of 5 squares each and five tetrominoes made of 4 squares each, for a total of seventeen shapes. The puzzle challenges the reader to use a set of eight puzzle pieces to form all seventeen shapes, as well as other non-rectangular shapes, as a tribute to a puzzle from 100 years ago that dissected a Greek cross shape into a square. Solutions to making all the shapes are provided inside the document.

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    Loyd Polyominoes: Exchange Puzzle - G4G13, Atlanta 2018 Donald Bell - All The Polyomino Shapes

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    Loyd Polyominoes All the polyomino shapes

    Exchange Puzzle - G4G13, Atlanta 2018


    Donald Bell - [email protected] Each of the pentominoes is made up of five squares and there are
    twelve different shapes.

    Each of the tetrominoes is made up of four squares, and there are five
    One hundred years ago, Sam Loyd
    different shapes. The tetrominoes have been drawn rotated to the
    showed how to dissect a Greek cross
    right.
    to a square.

    The Greek cross is one of the twelve pentominoes and the square is one
    of the five tetrominoes. So there are seventeen of these "polyominoes".

    Is it possible to find a small set of puzzle pieces that can make all
    seventeen of them, in the style of Loyd's dissection?

    I think that at least eight pieces are


    required.

    For the purpose of illustration, they


    can be assembled into a rectangle,
    like this ▶

    Can you make all seventeen of the


    pentominoes and tetrominoes? The eight puzzle pieces will make many other interesting shapes. Can
    That's seventeen separate puzzles. you also find some non-rectangular convex shapes?

    The diagram on the next page is a reminder of what they all look like. Solutions are stapled inside this leaflet.
    (But don't look until you have tried really hard!)
    More information on this puzzle and how it was designed at:
    http://www.marchland.org/loyd If you have comments, suggestions or discoveries, please e-mail me:
    [email protected]

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